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146 quotes (Page 3 of 6 pages)If I had more time I would write a shorter letter.
Writers and Writing
Blaise Pascal
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If I had not existed, someone else would have written me, Hemingway, Dostoevski, all of us.
Writers and Writing
William Faulkner
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If the doctor told me I had six minutes to live, I'd type a little faster.
Writers and Writing
Isaac Asimov
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If you want to be a writer-stop talking about it and sit down and write!
Writers and Writing
Jackie Collins
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If you wish to be a writer; write!
Writers and Writing
Epictetus
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In all pointed sentences, some degree of accuracy must be sacrificed to conciseness.
Writers and Writing
Samuel Johnson
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It is rarely that you see an American writer who is not hopelessly sane.
Writers and Writing
Margaret Anderson
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It requires more than mere genius to be an author.
Writers and Writing
Jean De La Bruyere
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It's very hard to be a gentleman and a writer.
Writers and Writing
W. Somerset Maugham
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Let authors write for glory and reward. The truth is well paid when she is sung and heard.
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James J. Corbett
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Let those who would write heroic poems make their life an heroic poem.
Writers and Writing
John Milton
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Let your literary compositions be kept from the public eye for nine years.
Writers and Writing
Horace
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Let's face it, writing is hell.
Writers and Writing
William Styron
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Make em laugh; make em cry; make em wait.
Writers and Writing
Charles Reade
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Making a book is a craft, like making a clock; it needs more than native wit to be an author.
Writers and Writing
Jean De La Bruyere
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Manuscript: something submitted in haste and returned at leisure.
Writers and Writing
Oliver Herford
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Most authors steal their works, or buy.
Writers and Writing
Alexander Pope
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Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.
Writers and Writing
Clifton Fadiman
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Never write on a subject until you have read yourself full of it.
Writers and Writing
Jean Paul Richter
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No one who cannot limit himself has ever been able to write.
Writers and Writing
Nicholas Boileau
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.
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James Joyce
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Nothing written for pay is worth printing. Only what has been written against the market.
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Ezra Pound
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Nowadays three witty turns of phrase and a lie make a writer.
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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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Of all that is written, I love only what a person has written with his own blood.
Writers and Writing
Friedrich Nietzsche
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Our work is to present things that are as they are.
Writers and Writing
(Frederick II) Frederick The Great
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun